Milestones, Dec. 13, 1948

Born. To Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Biddle, 50, wartime U.S. ambassador to the European governments in exile, now an Army colonel, and third wife Margaret Atkinson Loughborough Biddle, fortyish; their first child, his second, a son; in Washington. Name: Anthony Joseph Drexel Jr. Weight: 7 Ibs.

Married. Louis Burt Mayer, 63, durable, diamond-smooth cinemogul (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Loew's, Inc.); and Mrs. Lorena Layson Danker, 41, Hollywood widow; each for the second time (he was divorced last April after 43 years of marriage) ; in Yuma, Ariz.

Divorced. Artie Shaw, 38, bandleader: by his sixth wife, Kathleen Winsor, 30, bestselling novelist (Forever Amber); after two...

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